It's Christmas Eve now. I don't wish you happiness my fellow DU'ers.

Happiness is too ephemeral. It comes and goes. I wish you contentedness in the coming year. I wish you solutions to your worst problems. I wish you the confidence that you can overcome the bad. I wish for you the enjoyment of the everyday little things. An hour here and there when no one needs you for anything, the smell of new mown grass, a good book and the time to read it, the smell of new mown grass by a lake, a great meal when you're really hungry, someone that is there when you are sad. I wish you health or friends/family if that's not possible. I wish you a good life. Be well, and thanks.

May this next year be better than the last.

thank you ..

Merry Christmas :)

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and to all you love.

Likewise to you my friend. :hug:

May all your worst problems go up in smoke and leave no scent on you.:hug:

Fear is what gets in the way of life and love. Not to mean turning a blind eye to danger, but just not being afraid, not living fearfully but openly and lovingly. I wish this for you also.

You nailed it. Fear, especially fear without hope, is a real killer. Thank you uppityperson.

Did a lot of stuff, was involved with a lot of people, died young. But lived in massive amounts of love and lack of fear. I try to copy this cousin when I think of it, and wish this on everyone. You are welcome and thank you for your wishes.

it's the dream, afraid of waking, that never takes the chance
it's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give
and the soul, afraid of dying, that never learns to live."

Of course, I usually modify that song, and sing it to my exes

"some say love, it is a river, that drowns the tender reed
some say love, it is a razor, that leaves your soul to bleed
some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower, and you, it's only ... lawnmower"

that does not quite fit the rhyme scheme, but the imagery is exquisite.

but grass is forever.

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the grass.

another modification

"When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember
THAT YOU'RE RIGHT!!!!

the lucky and the strong will be taken down by us moles, my friends the cockroaches(nice people, don't eat at their house), and the Termites(very driven but they set a nice table). Btw the "bite me" was not meant hostilely. I work in a factory. we only use it in humor. Sorry.

You must be almost the only other working class person here, except for the truckers. What do you make, and what is your area? I ran drill presses for a year and worked on a Bosch line and a punch press and some other general assembly.

Ford trim plant. Do not goof on me because I'm not in assembly. We work just as hard, if not harder.

I found assembly to be not nearly as hard as line work. Both the paint line unstacking and the plastic auto-parts molding were jobs that beat the crap out of me for the six days I had them. I had a girl from packaging come and work with me on the drill press. She was a girl I had asked out and been refused. I decided to run my tail off because the shift supervisor said we needed lots of parts and I was trying to impress her. She tried to keep up, and did a pretty good job too, but she asked to go back to packaging. Normally I did not work that fast because the piece rate sucked especially when working in a team. I could do 1800 by myself (IIRC) and that night we did about 2900 as a team. The 50 year old woman on first shift was a frigging dynamo, could do about 2400 by herself and so ruined the piece rate curve. They didn't want to pay her what she was worth.

The same back atcha!

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Thank you for your clear honest post when my son came home from the hospital and I was asking here for someone to interpret his discharge orders. You said, and I quote,

I also want to reinforce that your son nearly died. He had a total of 14 liters of fluids intravenously...14,000 cc's of fluid! That is a lot. He needs to get a grip on what is wrong with him. It is understandable that he sees it as a nuisance; most young people see themselves as immortal. Young males "typically" see themselves this way. He needs to have a whole lot more respect for this illness. It could take his life. I'm sorry to sound this way, but those are the facts. (I'm an RN, and once in a while I worked in the ER, BTW.)

when he read this, his eyes widened, and I really believe that's when he started to take this stuff seriously. Thank You, and may you have a very Merry Christmas, and the best coming year of your life.

Do you know, I had forgotten I had said all that to you......

I am honored that you kept this, for your son's sake....And I am so happy that it made a difference to him...

I thank you for your very kind wishes, my dear hickman.....

And I profoundly wish the very same for you and your son!

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And allow me to add: even nurses sometimes need reminding of the good things that they do.....

Doctors pontificate, and diagnose and thank you very much, but nurses are the people that actually get people well, or see them out. Maybe I'm ranting, but too bad, it's just my experience.

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I wish for you contentedness, healing sleep when you're challenged, and for the rest of us DU'ers a nickname for you. Longest damn name I've seen here yet. Can I call you moin?

Maureen

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Maureen, very old beautiful name. Wonderful to meet you.:hi: :hug:

Be content in the new year. Enjoy life. And when happiness comes embrace it.

Khash.

Like a drunken uncle, it comes when you least expect it, and goes just as capriciously. I wish you moments of joy in the new year khashka. Many of them.

It is my wish that for you next year is better than last year. May those who know you say of you that you improved their lives and in the end may the impact you had upon this planet be a positive one.
chknltl

I wish the same for you and more. I wish for you that when you look back on 2006 this time next year, you can think "I did well". And behind you will be a lot of people you didn't even know, won't remember, but something you did made their life easier in some small way. That's the way it should be, I hope it for you.

Thank you for the well wishes and the perspective.

I wish the same for you. :hug:


I have also bookmarked this thread to help me remember this perspective.

When I am depressed, and worried, I always remember a news report I heard in the early 80's. Young Muslim girls, 11 and 12 years old being pulled off busses and gang raped by enemy soldiers. Nothing I've ever been through comes close to that. That's my bar. When bills are closing in, and my kids are screwed up or in the hospital, perspective rules. A job and a safe home, merh, this is the least I hope for you all your life, but wish for you so much more.

I have a job and my femansion. I am doing better than many - I am blessed.

Your OP helps me recognize that. Thank you for sharing and thank you for the well wishes. :hug:

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May you and your family have a Merry Christmas and a safe and enjoyable new year!

:)

May you, in the new year, never run into anything that you can't easily solve. Have a good year. Be well.

I wish all the happiness (ephemeral though it may be) you deserve in 2006! I also wish you all the same things! :hi: